This used to be the case but in my experience Adobe runs better in Apple Silicon than Affinity does.

This is true. I bought it because photoshop kept crashing on Mac. And I got tired of watching filters take effect in Lightroom.

I switched to Capture One years ago, but recently switched back to Lightroom. It’s much much faster now and they also recently launched advanced color editing, AI masks, and true HDR support which pushed me over the edge.

Eh, they take like 30 seconds just to open the app.